Philanthropy
With his wife Dorothy, Hintze set up the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation, which has given significant and wide-ranging philanthropic support to around 150 different causes, focusing mainly on health, education, religion and the arts.
Among major donations, he has established the chair of International Security at the University of Sydney, enabled the restoration of Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican and sponsored two major galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He also came to the aid of Wandsworth Museum, which was facing imminent closure by offering a £2,000,000 rescue package while co-chairing Clapham's Trinity Hospice campaign for a new in-patient centre which has now been completed. Through CQS and the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation he provided funding to create a 'theatre in the round' at the Old Vic in London. Most recent projects have included sponsorship of an iconic exhibition of Raphael's Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel at the V&A and a £2,000,000 donation to the National Gallery.
The donation to the National Gallery will be used in part to fund refurbishment, including the installation of new technology to reduce the gallery’s running costs and carbon footprint.
The Hintze Family Charitable Foundation is also listed as a Life Benefactor Donor to the National Theatre.
Hintze currently serves as chairman of the Prince's Foundation for Building Community, a trustee of the National Gallery, the Institute of Economic Affairs, the University of Sydney Trust and Wandsworth Museum. He also serves on the International Council of the V&A and is Chairman of the UK Patrons of the Arts of the Vatican Museums. In 2009 he was appointed vice-president of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association.
Hintze was initially appointed to the National Gallery’s Board of Trustees by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown (Labour Party) in 2008. He was later reappointed by Prime Minister David Cameron (Conservative Party).
The Guardian has reported that Hintze is a donor to the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
In recognition for their charitable contributions in support of the arts, Michael and his wife Dorothy received the Prince of Wales Medal for Arts Philanthropy in 2009.
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